ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Ezdan Holding Al Sadd, El Jaish launches prepare for official website tough semis Business | 18 Sport | 27 Thursday 11 September 2014 • 16 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6185 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Cabinet panel to check Emir meets Turkish Foreign Minister safety of petrol stations Committee to upgrade standards and specifications DOHA: The State Cabinet has the existing stations are comply- incident took place at one of them decided to set up a committee ing with the upgraded standards late in February this year. to assess and regularly monitor and specifications involving health After the incident, restau- the safety of petrol filling and and safety. rants and cafeterias within the service stations. Non-compliance is to be dealt precincts of a petrol station have Strict monitoring will be with seriously. How far petrol sta- been barred from using LPG done of how these stations store tions are polluting the environ- cylinders and tanks. They must fuel and how they fill up petrol ment is also to be checked and instead use electric ovens. in customers’ vehicles, Qatar made sure that doesn’t happen The sale of transparent cook- The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey Mevlut News Agency (QNA) reported anymore. ing gas cylinders was also banned Cavusoglu at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. Discussions dealt with bilateral ties and ways of enhancing them. yesterday. The Cabinet had actually issued by supermarkets operating within More importantly, the com- a draft decision earlier ordering the precinct of a petrol station. mittee will be deciding which the formation of the above-men- The decision was, however, commercial activities should be tioned committee and the State revoked in respect of some petrol housed within the precincts of Cabinet, at its weekly meeting stations later. Obama poised a petrol station and which one yesterday, endorsed it. Members of the Central GCC discusses equal should be removed. The committee is to be a per- Municipal Council (CMC) raised to authorise air Presently, many petrol stations manent feature as a petrol sta- the issue of safety of petrol sta- double as commercial complexes tion monitoring agency, it is tions in the aftermath of the late raids against IS with people crowding them as understood. February incident and demanded rights for citizens they boast eateries, supermarkets The government’s move to strict monitoring by the authori- WASHINGTON: US President and even laundries. form the committee follows media ties concerned. DOHA: Initiatives are under of ‘Mawatina’. According to Barack Obama seemed poised The committee is to be set up reports that not all petrol stations They said that the licence of way to make sure that one GCC Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), the to authorise air strikes against at the Ministry of Energy and in the country are safe. those petrol stations that are country treats the citizens of the GCC Secretary-General Abdul the Islamic State in Syria yes- Industry and will be tasked with Local newspapers have been not safe should be cancelled and other as its own in all matters Lateef Al Zayani said that the terday, ahead of a speech to upgrading standards and specifi- talking of the need to upgrade the eateries be removed from the including health, education, and objectives of ‘Mawatina’ would be brace his nation for a long duel cations for petrol filling and serv- safety standards for petrol sta- premises of all filling and service property and business ownership. achieved with the setting up of the with the jihadists. ice stations. tions and ensure compliance by stations without any exception. A two-day workshop of the youth GCC common market. Free move- In a much-anticipated White The panel will check how far all of them after a devastating THE PENINSULA is on in Kuwait and its title is ‘The ment within the GCC region, free- House address, Obama was also GCC and Mawatina’. Mawatina dom to choose place of residence expected to announce a plan to in Arabic means citizenship. Its in any GCC state and the right to rebuild Iraq’s splintered army. concept is that GCC states treat employment in all member-states He called the Custodian of the 26 Karwa buses gutted in fire citizens of member-countries as are the essential aspects of the con- Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah equals in all matters and set up a cept of ‘Mawatina’. bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi common market and give prefer- Al Zayani said that there are Arabia, a pivotal member of the ence in jobs to GCC nationals. 25,000 GCC citizens employed in coalition he is building to battle The concept is old and meet- member-states that are not their IS, and gathered top defence and ings of officials and the youth home countries. They are the intelligence chiefs, while finalising from the GCC states on how to beneficiary of pension schemes a strategy for the kind of prolonged speed up the efforts of regional in those countries. The number new intervention in the Middle integration take place from time of GCC banks with cross-border East he has always abhorred. to time. branches (with branches in mem- Obama will use his speech at The basic idea is to reduce ber-states) has reached 26 from 0100 GMT today to warn that the unemployment among the youth just a few some years ago. fight against IS could be prolonged. in the region by encouraging inte- GCC countries have provided “You will hear from the President gration efforts whereby member- business and industrial loans to how the US will pursue a compre- states provide job opportunities nationals of other GCC countries hensive strategy to degrade and to locals. Qatar News Agency to the extent of a staggering ultimately destroy IS,” an official (QNA) reported yesterday that $1.5bn, said the secretary-general. said. The plan will include US mili- experts and advisers from the Similarly, there are 100,000 tary action against Islamic State GCC secretariat-general will GCC citizens who own property in forces and new support for the tell the workshop how far the other GCC states. There are over opposition in Syria and the new project of regional integration 40,000 GCC students enrolled in government in Iraq. The New York (Mawatina) has reached. other Gulf states. The secretary- Times said Obama was ready to The objective is to seek the general said that trade among sign off on air strikes in Syria to The burnt-out fleet of Karwa buses at Karwa depot in Abu Hamour. Mowasalat said yesterday that the fire views of the youth on how to best GCC states had reached a record compliment those carried out on on Tuesday evening destroyed 26 buses. All the buses were out of service since several months. The cause to achieve regional integration as $100bn annually. Islamic State targets in Iraq. AFP See also page 10 of the fire is under investigation. Report on page 4 ABDUL BASIT enshrined within the framework THE PENINSULA Tough rescue Israel opens five British PM begs Scots not to criminal probes on break up ‘family of nations’ Gaza war conduct EDINBURGH: British Prime Minister poll released yesterday evening showed 53 per- David Cameron yesterday begged Scots not cent of Scots would vote against a split, with TEL AVIV: Israel’s military said yesterday to rip apart the United Kingdom’s “family of 47 percent intending to opt for independence that it had opened five criminal investiga- nations”, flying to Scotland to man the bar- — unchanged from its last survey on August tions into its Gaza war operations, including ricades against a surge in support for inde- 28. The figures from the poll, carried out by attacks that killed four Palestinian children pendence eight days before a referendum. Survation for the Daily Record newspaper, on a beach and 17 people at a UN school. Cameron appealed to Scots to use their excluded 10 percent of undecided. Major-General Dan Efroni, Israel’s chief heads and their hearts when they voted on British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, military prosecutor, has ordered the armed September 18. He reminded them of their who leads the Liberal Democrats, and opposition forces’ investigative teams to look into a total shared history and bonds with England, Wales Labour Party leader Ed Miliband also crossed of 99 Gaza war incidents, the military said. and Northern Ireland — twice evoking World the border to shore up support. All three par- A senior officer, briefing foreign reporters, War Two and the fight against Hitler. ties have offered Scotland greater autonomy as said five cases in which criminal charges could He also warned that an independent Scotland an enticement to vote against independence. be brought include an air strike of a Gaza beach could not keep the pound currency, jobs would The prime minister, whose job may be on the on July 16 in which four boys were killed and head south, and the country’s security be weak- line if he loses Scotland, warned Scots a vote tank fire on a school run by the United Nations ened. “I would be heartbroken if this family of for secession would be forever. Cameron held Relief and Works Agency in the town of Beit nations was torn apart,” said Cameron, speaking out the promise of more power for Scotland if Hanoun on July 24 in which 17 people died.